Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?Oct. '72 to Feb '74 Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?traffic management office passenger section Your AFSC in Misawa?60230 Comments:did anybody view the on HGTV Thursday night April 12th, House Hunting International. It was about a guy and his family moving to Misawa AB to take a civilian job. Very interesting program. Did not show much of base except for a house on the north side plus two houses outside the base. His family rented a house just outside the base near a busines that deals with farm equipment repair. Probably can view the program by going to www.hgtv.com

Record Number: 1964

Posted: April 13, 2012, 6:36 am

Name: Paul Harper Found: Linked from another site

Location: Metro Atlanta Area

Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?Apr 1980-Oct 1982 Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?6920 ESG ABLE Flight Your AFSC in Misawa?207x1 Comments:I loved my time their. This was my first assignment in the Air Force. My first child was born there. I still would like to go back and visit one day. Played on Sofball and Basketball teams. After swings Bowling league. Remember visiting the temples, the cherry blossom festivals. Remember going shopping in Hachinoe(KFC) and Aomori(McDonalds). Having picnics at Lake Towada.

Record Number: 1963

Posted: April 11, 2012, 3:54 pm

Name: Brad Steingraber- aka "grabber" Found: Helen sent me

Location: Corona, California

Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?Oct/67-Feb/71 Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?Trick II - The Big Deuce Your AFSC in Misawa?292 Comments:Saw the reunion info in American Legion Magazine.Difficulty with names of the "animals" as we off base guys called the guys in the barracks.But played Basketball for 3 years for the deuce.(center).Have spent all day reading every blog from my era at Misawa. What a blast it was. Last day on the hon I was able to acquire the plaque over the entrance to the gig.Still have it.what a nice rememberance of a fantastic time. Lived in E-78. Son Jeff born there in the base hosp.Cheryl and Dennis Green, Steve and Kathy Quibell, Willy and Theresa Moon, Joe and Debbie Sweeney.all neighbors. We had a lot of jocks on the deuce. where are you now...DoDo Burke,Woody,Carnes, Hal Ehrtsman,Nubbers, Big Smitty our section SSgt., frenchy de Mille,Ron Rebella (our coach),Mike McKinley. ????

Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?08/58 to 08/60 Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?31st A&E Your AFSC in Misawa?Airborne Radio Comments:Great duty and I enjoyed looking at the old pictures of AP Alley

Record Number: 1960

Posted: April 5, 2012, 2:10 pm

Name: Mary Lahue Found: Found using a search engine

Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?Dec 1962-July 1965 Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?depended Comments:I notice there are quit a few of you that were in Misawa in the 1960s I have a group on facebook call Misawa Japan the 1960sPlease come and join Hope you have photos of Misawa I do

Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?1968 to 1971 Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?Naval Security Group Comments:

I met my wife in AP Alley. Her name was Yoko (Sumiko) and she was at the Florence.

I brought her home and marred her. We had 38 wonderful years together. We have two children and three grand children. Two of which she never met. I miss her very very much.

She passed away three years ago. I am heart broken in loosing her. I will meet her again in heaven.

This is for you my love. Love forever dear.

God Bless you all.

Jerry Dodd

Ocel@frontiernet.net

Record Number: 1957

Posted: March 25, 2012, 10:48 am

Name: Greg Andrews Found: Just surfed on in

Location: Eugene, Oregon

Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?May 1982 to May 1985 Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?6920th ESG, Able Flight, Block Nine and The Fishbowl Your AFSC in Misawa?20270A Comments:Loved my time here. The locals were awesome. First house was in the W section before moving into TOW housing on base. One of my best memories of local culture was the Cherry Blossom Festival in Hirosaki.

Record Number: 1956

Posted: March 24, 2012, 8:41 pm

Name: Pete Erickson Found: Helen sent me

Location: Sequim, Wa

Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?03/64 to 03/66 Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?Trick 1 Your AFSC in Misawa?29252 Comments:Noticed a few guys from the existing list but am wondering if anyone has knowledge of David Dale or Ken Danielson.Dave was the roommate of George Gasaway who is on the list. Hello to Jim Dryer.

Record Number: 1955

Posted: March 20, 2012, 2:24 pm

Name: Misawa Edgren Alumni Found: Just surfed on in

Comments:The Alumni of both Misawa Missiles & Misawa Edgren Eagles will be gathering for a Reunion in June on Thursday June 21, Friday June 22 and Saterday June 23, 2012. We will be having the reunion in Nashville, Tennessee at the Radisson Opryland Hotel. Thursday, June 21 will be registration, meet and greet in the Hospitality Suite and around town on your own, Silent Auction and Raffle. Friday, June 22 will be registration in the Hospitality Suite, fun around town and Crown & Chicken in the Hospitality Suite, Reunion evening in one of the Banquet Rooms music and fun!Saturday, June 23 will be Open Hospitality Suite, out and about Nashville, BBQ in afternoon, scavenger hunt, At Hotel Dinner with Special Guests, Relief Efforts Thank You Jazz from Japan, Awards and Dance..We invite any Alumni student or Staff of these schools and family. They do not have to have been in the graduating class.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`Misawa-Edgren Nashville Reunion 2012

Reservation deadline is MAY 15 TH, 2012. No guarantee of rooms or room rate after that date.

There is a special room rate under group code 'MISAWA HIGH SCHOOL REUNION'.Room Rates: 2 Double or King (limited #) - $99.00 plus tax All rates are subject to a 9.25% Tennessee sales tax, a 6% occupancy tax, and $2.50 per room per night city tax or the current prevailing tax. Group rates will be extended to you three days prior and post-contracted dates, based on availability.

Each person is responsible for arranging their room reservation with the hotel.Complimentary ParkingComplimentary Wireless Internet in sleeping rooms and all meeting space~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`We need to know who is coming and number for rooms and for meals. Bring a picture of your old self and a item for Japan Relief Auction. Year Books and memories! Thank You for your help in this matter. Respectfully,

Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?12/74-07/76 Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?I THINK I WAS ON CHARLIE FLIGHT Your AFSC in Misawa?202 Comments:I WAS FRESH OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL. I LIVE CLOSE TO AN OLE FRIEND 'SHERKEL'. I LEFT AND WENT TO SAN VITO, ITALY.

Record Number: 1953

Posted: March 14, 2012, 8:16 pm

Name: Bob Brousseau Found: Found using a search engine

Location: Helena, Montana, USA

Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?09/74-06/77 Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?6920 Security Police Squadron Your AFSC in Misawa?81150 Security Specialist Comments:Loved my time at Misawa! I was the permanent day shift entry controller at Wing Ops on the hill. Hung out with Dave Littleton who worked in Ops, can't remember which trick anymore. We both toured all over Honshu and Hokkaido, he on his '75 Yamaha 650 and me on my '75 Kawasaki 750 (still have it!). Made a few trips to Tokyo, Kyoto and Soporro on these bikes. My boss, 1LT Charlie Gregg (oldest 1LT in the AF-former MSGT) and I took a bike trip (he rode a red '77 Honda 750-SS), down to Yokota and Tokyo and hit many bars down that way. He spoke fluent Japanese and knew every back alley in Tokyo like the back of his hand. Somehow he managed to have 11 years of assignments in Japan, when I started working for him. The Chief, Security Polce was a young Capt named Emory Toops. Some of the SP's I remember working with were: Nelson Strother, Dirk Rogers, Jim Reed, Tom Mulligan & Bob Riley. The Wing Commander was a great guy named Col. Lester Mellot; Base Commander was a former SSgt named Col. Robert Edgren, another good guy as I recall. Made it back there once in 1981 on a SAM aircraft that I was a Security NCO on out of Andrews AFB, DC., and saw a few of my old co-workers. Managed to reconnect with a few people from Ops in 1987 when I was assigned to the 6915 ESS, Bad Aibling Station, Germany. USAFSS was such a close-nit group of good people, will always have super memories of those years.

Record Number: 1952

Posted: March 14, 2012, 3:54 pm

Name: volice neal johnson Found: A friend sent me

Location: Geraldine, alabama

Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?o4/63-o8-64 Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?Trick 1 Your AFSC in Misawa?29252 Comments:Would like to locate men I served with: John Wheland---George Binkley---Airmen Heck, Akerman & others whose names I have forgotten. Times were good in Misawa!!!

Record Number: 1951

Posted: March 8, 2012, 4:50 am

Name: chuck furtaw Found: Just surfed on in

Location: reno, nv

Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?Oct 73 to Jul 76 Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?6920 CSG, Personal Affairs Your AFSC in Misawa?73271 Comments:For Robbie Hawes below: Robbie, send me your email and I will bring you up to date on a few of us from main base. Good to see your name here

Chuck Furtaw 73-76

Record Number: 1950

Posted: March 4, 2012, 7:17 am

Name: Meredith M Cooper Found: Just surfed on in

Location: Jupiter, Fl

Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?March 54---March 56 Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?Trick 1 Your AFSC in Misawa?? Comments:Found you years ago, have been to quite a few reunions, the next one will be Nashville in 2012--Have located quite a few I knew and many more the I now know--Great websight---NAMES-of a few Brady McCoy, Murphy Thomas,goes on and on--

Thank You

Meredith Cooper

Record Number: 1949

Posted: March 3, 2012, 4:48 pm

Name: Delfred (Del or Mizu & Mizu-san) Waters Found: Just surfed on in

Location: 802 Robin St, Harrison (Boone county) Arkansas, 72601-1856

Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?10-54 to 04/56 Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?1st Radio Squadron Mobile, (became 6921 RSM/RGM) USAFSS Your AFSC in Misawa?29350 ( I think - worked rotating shifts flash net radio opr and DF} Comments:Traumatic experience for an ignorant Arkansas country boy.USS Gen A E Anderson ship ride (sea sick before we got tothe Golden Gate bridge) to Yokahoma, then a nasty two daytrain ride to Misawa. Got Selected for TDY to Det 2, WakkanaiDec. 1954(det.troop total pop. 90, including the AC&W det.)Began snowing on my arrival, froze all the fish on the dryingracks and the "honey buckets and benjos" at the Japanese villiage on the beach across the road from the det. and sure improved thesmell of the enviorment. The snow was headlight deep on the "weasles" on the beach. One winter and frozen plumbing was enough for me, I "rotated" back to the squadron at Misawa in Aug. 1955. Anybody reading this recalls/remembers me "drop-me-a-line",I'll tell George McKenzie, he lives just across Missouriline and we visit/talk.

Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?01/75-10/77 Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?6920th Director of Personnel. Was NCOIC, Promotions & Testing, Base OJT, and Classification & Traini Your AFSC in Misawa?751X2 Education & Training Comments: I was the first AFSC 751X2 to be assigned to Misawa who had an active SIR clearance. I worked at Base Personnel and also spent a lot of time on the Hill at DOUT. I hope someday to find Angie, Mike, Steve, Dale, and the rest of a great gang of dedicated, yet "parting" group of people. I enjoyed my assignment a lot. I retired on 1 Jan 1992, going on to serve 20 years with the US Customs Service, finaly retiring from the US Customs & Border Protection, Dept. Homeland Security in 2009. I spent my off time working as the personal bar-back for the famous Mike Bobbinets at the NCO Club. During my tour, I know that I met every single person at Misawa.

Record Number: 1946

Posted: February 29, 2012, 2:37 pm

Name: Charles Welsh Found: Found using a search engine

Location: Orwigsburg, Pa

Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?07/64 - 08/66 Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?6989 Security Sq., Trick 3 Your AFSC in Misawa?292x2 Comments:I enjoyed my stay in Japan, many great memories. Spent too much time in AP Alley. Was on Trick 3, we had a band on our Trick, they played at the Static Club quite abit. They called themselves the "Yellow Jackets". They were very good.

Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?04/67-04/69 Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?Trick 4 Your AFSC in Misawa?29251 Comments:I remember the big quake while serving in Misawa. Learned to snow ski over there. Also played some ping pong. Even drank a little beer. Enjoyed the two years, but have not been back.

Record Number: 1942

Posted: February 23, 2012, 1:56 pm

Name: Dan Miskelly Found: Found using a search engine

Location: Sapporo, JAPAN

Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?1966 to 1970 Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?6921st. Security Wing, Trick 4 Your AFSC in Misawa?292X2 Comments:When I arrived in Misawa in October 1966 Misawa was a 2 year tour, but I loved Japan and traveling the country so much that I voluntarily extended my tour. Because I loved traveling so much I eventually became the Trick 4 "Tour Coordinator". I also started and managed the "Trick 4 Snack Bar" where we sold sandwiches, candy, etc., with all profits going to Trick parties and other Trick social events.

Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?6/80-8/83 Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?1956 Comm sq Your AFSC in Misawa?304X0 Comments:Msgt.Gary Drane of the Water Walkers, Tsgt. Greg Davis, Lt. Litchy (and her name rhymed with..) CMSGT Casteneda, Maj. Feldman, Mike Fenech, Rosie, Tim. Those folks made a great impact on my life. There were others but their names escape me now; I blame it on old age. I remember the dedication of the F86 when the microphone died during the commander's speech, erecting the antenna outside the shop...not very succesfully the first time. Ah, yes, the good old days.